Globe Hackers

Globe Hackers engaging with visionaries focused on solutions. Adventure travel like you've never experienced before. Seasoned travelers and long time expatriates Alex Routh and Steven Cleghorn are crisscrossing the globe to examine, in depth, stories that are determining our future. Through video, blogs and photographs, together with simpatico adventurers, we'll hack the globe, in relationship with the real world - its people, geography, history, evolving ecology, society and culture, sharing stories about solutions to the challenges of our times.

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Globe Hackers have an up-to-date understanding of our world and a long-term view of human potential. We are visionaries focused on solutions. We are curious, open and grounded.

Before you think this project is all about computers read this definition of "hacking" on the Urban Dictionary.

The life of a true hacker is episodic, rather than planned. Hackers create ``hacks.'' A hack can be anything from a practical joke to a brilliant new computer program. (VisiCalc was a great hack. Its imitators are not hacks.) But whatever it is, a good hack must be aesthetically perfect. If it's a joke, it must be a complete one. If you decide to turn someone's dorm room upside-down, it's not enough to epoxy the furniture to the ceiling. You must also epoxy the pieces of paper to the desk. Brian HarveyUniversity of California, Berkeley

Let's discuss living a fascinating life and engaging in the process of learning all we can while we're fortunate enough to be alive. We must redefine freedom, power and identity within community.

Never get comfortable while standing firmly on the shoulders of giants.

“Nudge on, noble cowards. “No widely applicable economic models have been developed specifically for the upcoming era,” the researchers warned. But the situation is not desperate; unhappiness can be the beginning of promise. If there is some hope, it lies in the imagination, in describing a future that does not fall back on the terms of the past. This means setting out new vistas for the expression of human desire and potential without recourse to the exhausted binaries of markets and state, individual and government, freedom and control. It means a new model of development, a new vision of the civic and economic constitution, that avoids the cancers of modernization and growth. This is, unreservedly, a radical project. But before the struggle for equality comes the struggle for vocabulary. Before treatment of the global disease can begin in earnest, we must own up to liberalism’s failures. We must first say: this is not a blip, and nothing in our intellectual knapsack today will do for the journey ahead.”

Aaron Timms is a writer currently based in Brooklyn, New York From his article, “This Is Not A Blip” in THE BAFFLER

Epicurus

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who understood that pleasure is not just about feeling good.

Without a healthy world in which healthy people can thrive we can not hope to have a better future. We have made so much progress in the domains of science, engineering, technology and ideas, and yet we face life-threatening challenges today as in the past.

Understanding how to thrive is a global project for all of humanity.

There are many things that make our planet unique, and one thing, regardless of our human differences, connects us all - our oceans.

Sailing is a humbling, exhilarating, and challenging experience. From ancient times, it has been a major mode of exploration, opportunity for trade, expansion, and conquest. The sea holds a romance and history that defines the human spirit.

Exploration, independence, adventure, power, both natural and human, combined with an indomitable spirit has been the foundation of human progress across domains throughout our history. Nothing embodies these qualities more than the seafaring person.

Anyone in love with the sea is horrified by what is happening to our oceans today. We must unite to maintain the health of our natural ecosystems so that they can sustain a wealth and diversity of life for generations to come.

Globe hackers are adept at finding ways to do what they really want to do, within the law, of course, anywhere they want, and by any means.

Globe Hackers are creative, curious and resilient people who don't give up easily and are always looking for the right solutions to complex problems.

They consider themselves citizens of the world and enjoy feeling connected to people across culture, age, race, creed, and other divides.

Most of all, Globe Hackers think they can.

Humanity's dream to fly had existed for thousands of years, its eventual realization made us godlike as we went from transatlantic solo flights to moon landings. The Space Shuttles, the Hubble Space Telescope, Pioneer 10, computer technology, satellites, and antenna arrays are helping us explore our Universe in greater detail than ever before.

Although we have made great progress, it's time for us to develop new social systems for humanity that will facilitate a transition to sustainable modes of living as part and parcel of nature, and as citizens of Earth.

Flight has allowed us to see ourselves and our place in the Universe in completely new ways.

Flight also epitomizes modern travel.

We need new flight fluels that are better for the environment. Wh has the solution?

The new human rights movement

Jeremy Bentham

We can improvise a solution for selfish reasons, or we can develop solutions to improve life for everyone. These kinds of judgements depend on one's values. What incentivizes us to do the right thing?

Jeremy Bentham, a paragon of utilitarian thinking refined ideas from many great philosophers before him, and through his brilliant work, has influenced political philosophy, international law and many other domains.

There are many great thinkers alive now who have stood on the shoulders of giants and continue to refine great ideas from the past.

We have the tools within our minds to solve our problems: reason, logic, scientific processes and methodologies, and our emotional fervor.

"A person (usually possessing thorough knowledge in no single field), who is talented at devising superficial "fixes," which are nothing more than auxiliary work-arounds for problems which eventually have to be solved "correctly" by a "trained professional."

Hackers are self-motivated, and learn through experimentation and persistence, as opposed to through "traditional" means.

Computer hackers do not completely fit this definition. Due to the high artificiality of computer technology itself, computer hackers must be highly knowledgeable before they can implement their first successful "hack." For them, "hacks" are the product of brilliant insight and thorough investigation, rather than the talent and natural law that go with hacking in more humanity-driven fields, such as entertainment or sports.

Chess masters have a similar level of mental discipline, although many hackers tend to lack the attention span necessary to be good at chess."

The zeitgeist movement defined

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“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would scratch this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.In middle age I was assured greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, once a bum always a bum. I fear this disease incurable. I set this matter down not to instruct others but to inform myself....A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck

The Look of Silence Official Trailer 1 (2015) - Joshua Oppenheimer Documentary HD A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

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